A 28-year-old man was taken into custody recently almost a year after he is accused of stealing power tools at a Sears in Ann Arbor.

Steven Inch -- whose addresses in court records include Garden City, Belleville and Ypsilanti -- is now charged in three different cases for shoplifting, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Inch appeared in the Washtenaw County Trial Court Thursday for the case involving the theft of $800 of tools from the Sears at Briarwood Mall.

Judge Darlene O'Brien adjourned the case until April 3 at the request of the Washtenaw County Public Defender's office so the other cases can catch up with the shoplifting case.

Employees at the Sears saw a Dodge Charger pull up to the entrance doors and a man believed to be Inch walk directly to the DeWalt section and grab two $400 tool sets on April 1, 2013, Ann Arbor police said. Inch is accused of walking out with the tools and fleeing in the Charger.

Inch was arraigned in two separate cases in district court Wednesday, records indicate. He is charged with one count of driving on a suspended or revoked license from an incident on Feb 12 and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia for an incident on Feb. 2. Both incidents took place in Ypsilanti Township, according to court records.

At the end of April 2013, CrimeStoppers issued a $1,000 reward for information leading to Inch's arrest. Records show he wasn't arraigned on the first-degree retail fraud charge until June. A court hearing was adjourned later that month because he was in drug and alcohol treatment, records show.

His preliminary examination didn't happen until July. A pretrial date was set in circuit court for September 9, but Inch did not show and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

But he did find an opportunity to steal again, according to police and court records.

On Dec. 28, he was accused of stealing a $600 Dyson vacuum from Arbor Vacuum, located 2990 Carpenter Road in Pittsfield Township. Police say Inch waited until a salesperson was distracted, grabbed the vacuum and ran out the door and fled in a Jeep.

"When the police dispatcher broadcasted the subject’s description to patrol officers, (Inch) was immediately identified by responding officers as a result of previous (shoplifting) arrests," said Pittsfield Township police Deputy Chief Gordy Schick.

Inch was initially charged with first-degree retail fraud, but ultimately pleaded guilty in district court to second-degree retail fraud at a preliminary examination in January, when he was also arraigned on the bench warrant for the Sears incident. He was sentenced in district court to 180 days in jail with 20 days served and to pay $600 restitution, according to court records.

He was given a $5,000 cash bond, which he posted later that month through a bail bondsman.

But Inch jumped bail. He failed to show at a February court hearing or his March sentencing in the vacuum case. He wasn't found again until just recently. Ann Arbor police said he was arrested after receiving a tip, but that CrimeStoppers wasn't involved.

Inch was arraigned Tuesday on the bench warrant and given a $50,000 cash bond, records show.

He remains at the Washtenaw County Jail.

John Counts covers crime and breaking news for The Ann Arbor News. He can be reached at johncounts@mlive.com or you can follow him on Twitter. Find all Washtenaw County crime stories here.